Charles Camosy, Fordham University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Jessica Wrobleski, Wheeling Jesuit University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

The ethics section will entertain first those papers that attend to the 2012 meeting theme Found in Translation: Living Faith in New Contexts, although other papers (dealing more generically with ethics, theoretically and practically, or the pedagogy and teaching of ethics) are also invited.

While translation (of both texts and contexts) has always been a matter of ethical concern, translation may be of particular significance in this age of globalization, which gives access to, and responsibilities toward, people whose voices would not have easily been encountered generations ago. In fact, this new access—through media, ease of travel, and perhaps especially the extent of current migration—is changing daily lives throughout the world, challenging people to negotiate the differences that emerge. As cultures interact in new ways, so dominant cultures find themselves not only translating, but translated into, new social realities.

In light of such realities, the ethics section particularly encourages paper proposals dealing with the following questions: What possibilities, challenges, and limitations exist for comparative/interreligious ethics? To what extent are the ethical values and practices of religious traditions translatable into “public” or “secular” discourses? Is there an “ethics of translation”—i.e., duties or virtues specific to a translator? What new possibilities for our lives and our religious traditions are emerging in light of new cultural exchanges? What valued wisdom of the past are we in danger of losing? How, as teachers and scholars of religion, can we assist our students, our faith communities, and our world in the translations necessary to meet the challenges of our time?

Please submit a proposal of 250-300 words in the body of an e-mail message directed to both conveners. Include your institutional affiliation (if any), contact information, and current status along with your proposal.  Please note that conference presenters must be members of the College Theology Society.